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Merry Xmas to me. Couldn’t pass up the 10% off sale and free shipping. $873 out the door. 6.2k open gate 12bit Raw to my Ninja V+ 
 
for some reason the black ones aren’t here in the U.S. till April so I grabbed one from MAP Camera Tokyo, New open box with the kit lens. 

Depends on how you define "prosumer", but arguably when we're being given 6.2K @29.97fps in 10-bit (with 12raw output too, and anamorphic support!) then couldn't you say the release of the X-M5 is indeed supporting prosumer shooters? I kinda think it is. 
I had been thinking if I buy a new camera next year (highly unlikely, but always possible) it would probably be a cheap Sony FX30. 
But perhaps this Fujifilm X-M5 is worth a look? Especially as it would be priced substantially cheaper than a FX30. 
Heck, for only a hundred bucks more you even get a handy 15mm to 45mm zoom lens:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1855426-REG/fujifilm_16900771_x_m5_mirrorless_camera_with.html 
I guess the lack of IBIS and TC would be the biggest two negatives for me. And perhaps the overheating. But....
https://petapixel.com/2024/10/14/fujifilm-x-m5-first-impressions-a-surprisingly-powerful-little-hybrid/
"If you need to record for long periods of time, you can shoot a long-play mode which still has the 1.18x crop but should dramatically extend record limits and avoid overheating. There are two screw mount brackets to allow the attaching of the Fujifilm cooling-fan unit if overheating needs to be more acutely avoided with the intensive record modes."
Handy!
I feel Panasonic has abandoned a little the MFT market underneath their flagship GH7/G9mk2
We used to have the "Gx series" (G3/G5/G6/G7) that were solid budget options. But the G9 changed that, being a flagship camera. And the G90/G100 just don't cut it in comparison. 
We need a "Panasonic G7mk2"!
Fujifilm's X100 series cameras have been massively popular. This new X-M5 with a pancake lens is the perfect camera for everyone who can't get their hands on an out of stock Fujifilm X100V or X100VI.
Or heck, this X-M5 is also perfect for everyone who simply can't afford a X100 series camera! Because a Fujfilm X-M5 with a TTArtisan 27mm f/2.8 autofocus lens is still a lot cheaper than a X100VI (heck, get a TTArtisan AF 56mm f/1.8 autofocus lens too! You're still a lot cheaper than a X100VI)
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1732752-REG/ttartisan_af2728_x_b_af_c27mm_f_2_8_lens.html
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1815332-REG/ttartisan_af5618_x_b_af_56mm_f_1_8_lens.html 

Not much point having a S35 mode for a VV/LF 4K sensor if you want to shoot 4K S35, as it's impossible.
That's not what I'm seeing, I haven't worked on a production with a Mini LF in a while. ARRI 35 are far more problem. I think most people saw the Mini LF has stop gap measure that ARRI had to rush out so they could shoot "true 4K" (not upscaled 4K such as the AMIRA or Mini did), a demand that numerous productions (such as Netflix) insisted upon. 
Of course once the ARRI 35 came out then that both solved the native 4K issue and gave the shooter a better camera as well.
Doubt we'll see that happening within the next decade.

I wish the S9 and the X-M5 would have a little love child. X-S9? The Panasonic IBIS, full frame sensor and autofocus. Anamorphic support and LUTS but 6.2k open gate Raw to the Ninja V+/Ultra like the Fuji. Color presets for JPEGs and the $800 price. If Panasonic had given us raw out of the HDMI it would have been too much though I agree. For Fuji to have left in the same specs as the XS20 and XH2s is nuts. 

You can use three frame markers at the same time. Richard Wong says att 2.25 that it works in both photo and video modes. And he shows how you can customize the frame markers.
 

Thanks for the wishes of you all here! : )
 
In this year I lost my best friends ever, my father and dearest aunt, a mother to me, hope 2025 may only become better than this 2024...
No complaints at professional level though...
Five/six awards (the 6th 'cause we're working on a sequel of a previous TV series not yet under my umbrella by then despite a determinant role in the nomination towards this prize this time) ten days ago for two feature movies shot in NZ and Macau, China, respectively, as producer with two of my partners in crime by this scribe of yours too.
 
North of Portugal. My brother's new home. With my core family of three, brother, sister-in-law, nephews and his brother-in-law, sister-in-law and respective mother, very likely. Our mother is still recovering from a surgery two weeks ago, the 2nd one this year from another fall and same broken leg... so the youngest will be with her instead. Just life, I guess.
 
While waiting for my FX30 next week arriving from a U.S. trip, Osmo Pocket 3 (have you already bought this jaw-dropper?) and their really small and handy accessories are the ones I regret today to not have discovered earlier from the previous model anyway. As never enough to have been reported before, that larger sensor, 4K 100/120fps and 10-bit D-Log M (even 4:2:0) are a thrice must : )
4th axis stabilizer just to mention one of the plus size : D of this little toy is simultaneously-plainly-and-luxuriously a simple joy... : X
The set of filters and extra add-ons, no less ; ) Testing all of them for these holidays! : P
 
Happy Christmas and the best 2025 to everyone!

 
EDIT/PS -- @Andrew Reid Thanks for extending that infamous 5-minutes editing limit here, serves to share more in the same post and in age of a big fail to twitter/X model without useless multiple posts so dispersive and annoying I intend to believe LOL :- )

Bought a S9 and gonna use it to do a tribute video of my mum while she is still in good shape this holiday.

I don't have any plans to upgrade in 2025. Two C70s is plenty for me. If anything, I want to shoot more little passion projects with c-mount lenses on my EOS-M. I've also joined a screenwriting group and purchased an old AlphaSmart word processor which seems a much better place to spend any time and energy that is not sucked up by work.

The holidays haven't been the same since my Mom passed in 2016, but I am trying to make the most of them after beating cancer last year!
As far as cameras, I think I am set for 2025. I MIGHT swap out my two S5s for S5IIs, depending on how the year goes. Not that I am unhappy with my S5s, it would just make matching them with my S5II X in post easier. I also might snag a S9... we'll see! But overall I am pretty settled until I see how things look next year or in 2026, as far as Lumix goes. What I have (two S5s and a S5II X) are honestly cameras I could use until the wheels fall off and I'd be happy with them, I'm more just looking at the long term big picture as far as where I end up.
Happy holidays to all of you!

Aside from those very odd Pentax users I'd like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, and a happy new year resolution of buying more cameras.
What is on your wish list and how are you spending the Christmas holidays?
👍

I think L-Mount's weakness, re: lenses, is in a more affordable/consumer sense. Sony and Canon have a lot of options, for all price brackets, that L-Mount doesn't hit. I think Lumix has a bigger issue than not having affordable lenses that average users can get (namely getting their cameras into the hands of average users to begin with) BUT it probably doesn't help. Average users, and heck, even some enthusiasts, don't always need f1.8 or f1.4 lenses. A bargain set of compact f2.8 primes wouldn't hurt the system, I don't think.
With that said, their current lenses are excellent and are among my favorite I've ever used, as far as new lenses go. I also think they are excellent value for what they are, though I know some people can't get over how much more expensive they are vs. their Sony and Canon counterparts, particularly the f1.8 primes. But the build quality and optical performance of the f1.8 primes blow both Sony and Canon's out of the water. Still, price often is what dictates people's spending habits.
I do wish Tamron would enter the L-mount, but I have a feeling that they don't because Sony owns a piece of them. They've rolled out lenses for pretty much every other mount at this point, even RF, so there has to be some reason for that. I suppose you could argue it's because there isn't a big enough customer base, but Fujifilm might have an even smaller one and they've released lenses for them.

Agreed. L Mount is pretty good now especially this year with the Sigma 28-45mm f1.8 and Sigma 28-105mm f2.8 becoming available and probable purchases for me in 2025.
Pretty sure I am going to go for the 28-45 as I need something faster than f2.8 for low light work and though not as fast as the 50mm f1.2, has more practical real world use for me.
The 28-105 I am still on the fence over and depends on whether an S2R appears.
If it does, as a LUMIX version of the Leica SL3, then it’s a done deal and I will trade my Sony A7RV and 3x zoom lenses for that combo as it will cover 95% of my needs as a ‘one and done’ and that last 5%, at the extreme ends, will be my compromise.
But if there is no S2R, then there will also be no 28-105 for me either because although it is available in Sony E Mount, I would rather have my smaller trio of Tamron zoom lenses for that compact Sony body.
All pieces of the greater puzzle.

I don't get "there aren't any lenses" talk. There are less lenses available than to a Sony shooter but there are plenty of lenses and more are appearing all the time. What lenses do most people really have? A 24-70 f2.8, maybe a wide or tele zoom depending on their work and 2 or 3 primes. You can easily have a decent L mount kit that covers most needs.

That was a very brief timeline indeed! No mention at all of GH1/GH2/GH3/GH4/GH5/GH6/BGH1/E1/E2/E2-M4/BMCC-MFT/BMPCC/Kinefinity/BOSMA/Chronos/etc?
I couldn't imagine ever discussing the history of MFT and not mentioning any of them at all!

The price drop for the BMPCC 4K could definitely hint at Blackmagic clearing out stock, but it might also be part of a strategic push to reignite interest in the MFT ecosystem. If they’re planning a newer version with Pyxis inspired specs while retaining the MFT mount, which I doubt, it would not only keep current users invested but also attract new filmmakers looking for affordability without sacrificing quality.
Interestingly, a lower price tag on the BMPCC 4K could spur a resurgence in MFT lens purchases, which would help keep the standard alive and thriving. MFT has been quietly losing ground to larger sensor formats, so moves like this could strengthen the system overall by drawing attention back to its flexibility and affordability.
I recently wrote a blog post briefly mentioning this very topic, how price cuts like this can reshape the market and reinvigorate interest in lens standards like MFT.

Some of those closed eBay auctions are coming with a kit lens. 
But if not, just pick up a nifty fifty from a dead mount for less than twenty bucks. 
 

ehhh... if someone is going to spend eighty bucks on a camera then for goodness sake don't get one from Amazon
You can get an old Sony NEX body instead for that price:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=sony+nex&_sacat=0&_sop=15&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc&LH_ItemCondition=3000 

Yeah I've lusted after the 100 since day one. I just saw one sell for below $2k. 
The 100s is in my budget and size and for travel I could really use the savings in weight and extra space in the bag. Ideally I would save up for the 100ii and at around $5,000 I could make that work. For now a 100s for $2,000 would be a nice intro into the system and allow me to start playing with all this vintage glass. Yeah, maybe not the same build quality as the original with better design and EVF. I'll keep an eye out for a deal. 
Bidding on an S1R for below $1,000 at the moment, Talking to a local chap for an SL2 at $2,000 and keeping an eye out for a steal on a GFX 100/s. Fun Times...!!! At least one of these high MP monsters will be under the tree soon.

The GFX100 is the most misunderstood camera on the market.
It's a full frame mirrorless camera, which just so happens to have an even larger sensor and the highest resolution of any mirrorless camera.
In the full frame mode it is 60mp, like an a7r V.
In the medium format mode, it is more like full frame+ rather than real medium format like a Hasselblad film camera, so the full frame lenses still work.
Had it been an even larger sensor or a reflex camera with a mirror, of course you'd need to get the native lenses but really you don't.
So that brings the cost down massively and opens up the creative possibilities more than any other camera I know.
Also what people don't understand is that the smaller GFX 100S is a significantly cost cut version, which doesn't feel anywhere near as good.
The OG GFX100 has the best build quality and ergonomics of any mirrorless camera, full stop. The size isn't too bad, and neither is weight a problem. It's closer to a Nikon Z9 than a RED.
I also really like the top display and gunmetal blue, and the detachable viewfinder which the GFX 100S doesn't have.
It becomes completely flat on top without it, which is somehow quite charming and brings the profile down.
With it, the EVF is one of the best on the market - big, detailed, fast.
With superb IBIS and on-sensor phase-detect AF it has all the bells and whistles.
You put a humdrum 50 dollar M42 lens on there and it looks like a fucking Noctilux.
And this is the part I don't understand - the lack of awareness for that, and the massive depreciation as if nobody wants it. This was a $10,000 camera when it came out, and it came out in the modern era not in the fucking 90s!
At half that price apparently it didn't really sell, so second hand prices kept going down and down.
Now it is less than the price of a Z6 III!
It makes that camera feel like a complete toy.

By advice would be to dump L-mount and get the GFX 100 with the Fringer EF adapter and Leica M adapter for GFX. It's glorious. The extra pizazz it brings to old SLR lenses when you find a good match, the XPan style wide aspect ratio mode, the massive sensor, the really good 10bit 4K, and the best build quality I have ever had the pleasure of, way better than the SL3 with it's terrible screen construction and dodgy on/off button (couldn't even get that right!)
As an added bonus... the phase-detect AF works REALLY well with the Fringer EF adapter and the 50mm F1.4, which is hardly an expensive Canon lens, doesn't have significant vignetting on the larger GFX format sensor.

I considered both for my needs and in the end went for something ‘in the middle’, the A7RV. And I can’t really fault it.
It’s a much better piece of kit than the A7CR (better lens platform, vastly better rear screen, 2 card slots…) and not far off the 100mp sensor of the Fuji whilst being more compact and offering far more lens options, never mind the far superior AF.
For travel, I’d say its case goes up even further based on the size and weight of the body and the lenses.
I know one thing based on my most recent trip to Paris and that is I would not go out on any serious urban or landscape shoot without my 70-180 again.
I have mine with the Tamron f2.8 trio of; 20-40, 28-75, 70-180 and when you also factor in one click switch to 26mp crop mode, the focal range and sheer quality of output from such a compact small bag set up, is bonkers.
And cost-wise, all available on the used market at pretty decent prices. I think you could score the lot for around 5k not including anything you might sell to help fund it.
Japan is No.1 on my bucket list. I would even need to think about what I’d take because it would be this body and 3 lens set up with one small bag.

Hey, I think all the camera makers would fight to keep them or get them back. They've kept the whole industry afloat helping them afford the high-end stuff.
Honestly when you see the crap Chinese cameras on Amazon, all the Japanese cameras are better, regardless make or year- all of them. I actually feel really bad for the people that get those "48MP" cameras with only a cellphone sensor and no optical zoom. My Dad got one before he died and when he purchased it, he seemed quite happy. He probably felt different or didn't know better soon after. I don't know why Amazon allows that stuff that is clearly filled with false advertising.

Basic bitches.

Exactly.
When I overhear people trying out/discussing/buying cameras in stores and at local camera shows, my impression is that taking still photos is the most important reason for buying a camera. Video hardly gets mentioned - it's a secondary 'nice to have, just in case' feature, not the main reason for buying what is perceived as a 'stills' camera (mostly because MILCs still look like traditional 35mm film cameras, I guess).
What sells reasonably well for camera manufacturers is probably quite different to what interests people on this video-orientated forum (I know that's the case for me).

Slashing the price to clear the old stock out? 
Might be hints at a new replacement coming in 2025?
Perhaps the Pyxis with a MFT mount and the same sensor in it.
Maybe with some other cost saving measure? (cheaper/smaller monitor?)
If they could release "a Pyxis MFT" sigificantly cheaper than their FF version, say for $1750, then maybe that explains clearing out the BMD Pocket bodies.